Print IT Reseller - issue 48

01732 759725 14 BULLETIN Centerprise promotes Nash to CEO IT provider Centerprise International has promoted Sales Director Jeremy Nash to Chief Executive Officer. Nash, who joined Centerprise as a business manager from HP Enterprise Services in July 2013 and was appointed to the Centerprise Board of Directors as Sales Director in September 2015, assumed his new role on September 1, the start of Centerprise’s new financial year. www.centerprise.co.uk OKI Europe appoints new MD Dennie K. Kawahara has been appointed as OKI Europe’s new Managing Director. He replaces Terry Kawashima who is taking on the role of General Manager, Overseas Banking Terminals Sales in Tokyo. Kawahara joined OKI Electric Industry in 1992 and from there worked his way up to his most recent position as Managing Director of OKI Data Australia – a role he took on in 2012. Under his leadership the division saw consistent business growth across Australia and New Zealand. “I am delighted to be returning to OKI Europe at such an exciting and transformational time in its long and successful history. OKI’s people, products and flexibility to meet customer needs make it a leader in its industry. I look forward to taking part in developing new, forward-looking strategies to address the positioning of our products in the new digital environment and to maintaining our momentum in an increasingly competitive market,” he said. www.oki.com/eu NEC strengthens solutions strategy NEC Display Solutions has strengthened its customer-focused solutions sales approach with the appointment of Mark Taylor as Display Solutions Manager. Taylor worked in AV distribution for ten years before focusing on LED sales, a technology which is receiving intense interest at present and where NEC is well placed to establish a leading authority. “Mark has a wealth of experience in the AV industry, most recently working in the LED space where we are experiencing huge growth so his knowledge of this market will be invaluable,” said Simon Jackson, Vice President, NEC Display Solutions. www.nec-display-solutions.com Centrify expands channel team Centrify, a 100% channel focused business in EMEA, has seen strong success in the region since it announced plans to move to a two-tier distribution model two years ago and appointed John Andrews to the role of EMEA Channel Director earlier this year. The company has further expanded its EMEA channel team with three new senior roles, appointing Eric Dobbelaar, Tony Sanchez and Sascha Schmidt to manage the Northern Europe, Sothern Europe and DACH regions respectively. All have a brief to support distribution partners and VARs in their regions, as well as look for new opportunities to grow and develop partners in security, cloud and specifically in identity and access management (IDAM) where Centrify is seeing growth potential. www.centrify.com Liquid Voice expands international operations Liquid Voice has announced the appointment of Sean Gallen as APAC Sales Manager. In this new role, he will be responsible for managing all sales activity and building the company’s reseller channels activity throughout the region. Gallen has over 25 years’ experience of the contact centre market and joins direct from Cyara, a leading global provider of customer experience testing and monitoring solutions, where he was Sales Manager for New Zealand. Prior to this he was ANZ Channel Manager for Genesys Laboratories with responsibility for increasing reseller sales of the company’s customer interaction management software. www.liquidvoice.com Andy Gass takes on new role at Tech Data Tech Data has appointed Andy Gass as Senior Vice President, Digital, Europe. In this role, he will drive the development and execution of the overall digitalisation strategy for Tech Data in Europe, leveraging and optimising the distributor’s e-commerce platforms, digital marketing practices and automated processes across its operations in the region. Gass joined Tech Data in 1993 and has since served in a number of senior roles, including Senior Vice President, Enterprise Division, and Regional Senior Vice President for Western Europe. He led several initiatives to formulate the long-term strategy for the company’s UK and European operations and was instrumental in the successful completion of numerous acquisitions over the past decade. www.techdata.co.uk New recruit for Micron Micron Technology has appointed Derek Dicker as Vice President and General Manager of the Storage Business Unit. In this role, Dicker will be responsible for leading and expanding Micron’s solid-state storage business. This includes building world-class storage solutions to address the growing opportunity in large market segments like cloud, enterprise and client computing. He will report to Sumit Sadana, Micron's Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer. www.micron.com/media Sean Gallen Mark Taylor Andy Gass